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Just noticed your accent nail at the end! Ha! You probably showed it before then but I was listening to you AND playing Tetris. Such a productive mom here! 🙂 Kids are in bed. Anyway, I’ve not started intuitive eating, per se. I have just QUIT dieting. I seriously quit. I am so sick of it. I’m sick of the worry and the tracking points and calories. I’m still weighing a couple times a week just to keep an idea of what my body’s doing. I have started drinking room temp water with half a lemon squeezed in each morning. I am trying that for overall health benefits, although I stopped for 3 days because I thought it was useless (after 2 full weeks). Then I started TOM and realized I didn’t get my pre-TOM pimple at all this month! So I restarted the lemon water because maybe it was helping my skin??? I feel like it is so hard to make actual meals in the day we live in without using processed junk. We are not whole foods by any means, but I felt convicted by the breakfasts we were having. They were loaded with carbs – bagels, cereal, pancakes, muffins, etc. I always served a protein with the choices, but still. So i told the kids I was working towards making our breakfasts healthier. One new thing for us is 2 hard boiled eggs and a bowl of Oikos vanilla yogurt with granola mixed in. Not 100% non-processed but an improvement, I think. And the kids love it, so whew for that (4 kids)!!! My next feat is experimenting with lunches that don’t always involve chips! I went to Walmart alone tonight, which is a 30-minute drive one way. I had intended to get myself a dessert of some sort while there and eat it while alone in the glorious silence! 🙂 I ended up getting in my van when leaving Walmart and saying out loud, “Oh. I didn’t get any kind of treat.” Then I proceeded to think and think and overthink that and tell myself that I will probably now stuff my face with Dove all week and crave dessert because I didn’t get any. I thought it was kinda ridiculous of me to dwell on that so much! My friend’s 16-year-old son pointed out to his mom this weekend how weird women are. My friend and her daughter came to sleep over with myself and my daughters while all the men went camping. When her son asked how it went, she responded with “We had 2 slices of pizza each, 2 brownies each with 1 scoop of ice cream, 2 pieces of french toast and 2 slices of turkey bacon the next morning…” He stopped her and said “Why do you count how much of everything you eat????” Haha I thought of that when you were saying how you would apologize and overthink food. Yep – I do the same. And I also sometimes look in my buggy and hope no one is judging and then start trying to put my healthier items on top. PSYCHO! 🙂

I can relate to all of this so much! Isn’t that so interesting about how she answered what y’all did while the boys were away?! Part of that podcast I have been listening (Food Psych) to gets into the sociological implications of why women especially focus on weight (and consequently, food) so much. It is SO fascinating. I worry about my daughter, and even if I try and model healthy behavior, she will certainly get messages through outside sources, whether subtle or direct. Messages that tell her that she must look desirable, that she must perform certain gender roles, etc. You just don’t even realize how all of the information we are exposed to influences our behavior and our view of ourselves. I am learning that a lot of that stuff really just hinders us from pursuing our life’s purpose. Like, if we weren’t consumed with trying to manipulate our bodies to be a certain way, and stress about not measuring up somehow…how would we use that time, mental space and energy? You know what I’m saying? It is kind of mind boggling.

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